Rowan field hockey players Paige Gray, Tess Herman and Gracie Merrick and lacrosse players Yasmin Harris, Fiona Lockhart and Jenna O’Neill have been selected to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Women’s At-Large Team. 

Herman picks up her second Academic All-District honor while she will also be looking to repeat on the CSC Academic All-America team, which will be announced on July 7. 

Gray (Easthampton, NJ/Rancocas Valley Regional) is a sophomore finance major who was a starter for the Profs’ defense, which limited the opponents to just 1.7 goals per game. The sophomore also contributed one goal and three assists on the year. She was named an NFHCA Scholar of Distinction and was selected to the NFHCA Academic Squad. 

Herman (Berlin, NJ/Eastern Regional), a sports communication and media major, was named to the NFHCA All-America Second Team in back-to-back seasons. She captured her second NJAC Defensive Player of the Year award and earned her third consecutive selection to both the All-Region IV First Team and the All-NJAC First Team. 

Merrick (Phillipsburg, NJ), a junior exercise science major, received All-Region IV First Team honors while also being named to the All-NJAC First Team. Merrick, who contributed three goals and five assists, was named to the NFHCA Academic Squad and was inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma National Student-Athlete honor society. 

Rowan’s Mason Dorsey has been named to the 2026 ABCA NCAA Division III Region IV All-Defensive Team as  voted on by members of the American Baseball Coaches Association.

Dorsey (Hammonton, NJ/St. Augustine Prep), the Profs’ centerfielder, posted a .992 fielding percentage this season, committing only one error in 126 total chances. 

Emily McCutcheon earned national recognition with a spot on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) 2026 Academic All-America® Division III Softball Second Team.

The senior becomes the eighth player in program history to earn the honor and the second in as many seasons to represent the Profs on the teams.

A Psychology major, McCutcheon is a three-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-American, a three-time NFCA First-Team All-Region selection, and a three-time New Jersey Athletic Conference All-Conference pick. In the classroom, she is a two-time CSC Academic All-District and a NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention as well as a Rowan Scholar of Distinction and a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma national student-athlete honor society.

Rowan placed four student-athletes – Mason Dorsey, Austin Kreyenhagen, Jason Schooley and Nick Struble – on the 2026 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Baseball Team. 

Dorsey (Hammonton, NJ/St Augustine), who received his degree in business management, received All-NJAC First Team honors this season for the first time in his career. The senior centerfielder owned the third-best batting average (.352) on the squad while recording career-highs of 47 runs, 56 hits, 10 doubles and 34 RBI. He also finished the season ranking third in the nation in sacrifice bunts. 

Dorsey, who was the NJAC Player of the Week award in March, is a four-time Rowan Scholar-Athlete of Distinction and two-time recipient of NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention. 

Kreyenhagen (Souderton, PA/Souderton), a sophomore mechanical engineering major, topped Rowan’s pitching staff with his 9-1 record and was named to the ABCA All-Region Second Team. The righthander recorded 54 strikeouts and tossed two complete games this season, including one complete-game shutout. Kreyenhagen also earned the decision in Rowan’s 8-3 win over Salisbury in the NCAA Division III World Series. 

He is a two-time Rowan Scholar-Athlete of Distinction and earns NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention for this year. 

Schooley (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee), a junior, was the Profs’ starting catcher this season and received All-NJAC Honorable Mention. He recorded 25 hits, 29 runs and 29 RBI while hitting four home runs. He set a new Rowan season record for hit-by-pitch (21) which he shares with sophomore Evan McCoach. Schooley recorded a fielding percentage of .975 behind the plate. 

Rowan University Athletics captured the NJAC Cup for 2025-26, marking the sixth year in a row and eighth time since the award’s inception that the Profs have been the recipient. The honor was announced at the annual NJAC Awards Brunch on Sunday at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton. Rowan men’s soccer standout Johnny Troiano was named the 2025-26 NJAC Male Athlete of the Year, while the conference also recognized this year’s champions and major award winners. 

Rowan claimed the 2025-26 Cup with a winning percentage of .905, the highest mark in the conference The Profs captured nine NJAC team championships and two regular season conference titles. Men’s indoor track and field claimed an NCAA team championship for the 12th national title in school history while Rowan became the 64th NJAC program in history to win a national title. The depth of Rowan’s national success extended further, with five individual national champions and four national runners-up, men’s outdoor track and field finishing as team runner-up at the NCAA Championships, baseball placing fourth at the NCAA Division III World Series, and softball placing sixth at the NCAA Division III World Series.

Madison Cooley, Mikayla Dansky, Kate Evick, Zara MacNair, and Emily McCutcheon were featured on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) 2026 Softball Academic All-District Teams.

In order to be eligible for the award, nominees must meet the following criteria:  An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and a graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student. Additionally, student-athletes must compete in 90 percent of the institution’s games played OR must start in at least 66 percent of the contests.

McCutcheon earns the honor for the third-consecutive year while Cooley, Dansky, Evick, and MacNair pick up the award for the first time.

McCutcheon is an Early Childhood Education major who led the team in pitching victories (22), ERA (1.31), innings pitched (187.1), complete games (19), and shutouts (6). In those 187 innings of work, the senior has tallied 107 strikeouts to just 15 walks. During the Profs’ postseason run, McCutcheon was named the most valuable player of the NCAA Marshal Regional and the most outstanding pitcher of the NCAA Glassboro Super Regional.

Cooley, a Biochemistry major, has appeared in 17 games in the circle, with a 1.71 ERA in 28.2 innings of work. The sophomore leads the squad with two saves in relief.

Dansky is an Accounting major who is enjoying a breakout season. The sophomore paced the team with 55 runs, 42 stolen bases, and 24 walks from the leadoff spot. Dansky has added seven doubles, five triples, and three home runs.

Evick, a senior catcher who majors in Exercise Science, batted .372 with 13 doubles, 33 RBI’s, two homers and a triple. 

MacNair is a Health & Physical Education major is second on the team in walks (18) while batting .350. The junior added 29 runs, 23 RBI’s, five doubles, and two triples.

McCutcheon, Dansky, Evick, and MacNair earned both All-NJAC and NFCA All-Region honors for the Profs.

Rowan wrapped up its fourth-consecutive appearance NCAA Division III Championship at the Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Virginia as the Profs end the 2026 season with a final record of 43-11 and a fifth-place national finish.